Alarm bells went off in the financial services industry with the onset of the subprime mortgage fiasco in 2007 and the subsequent collapse of Bear Stearns in March of this year. More recently, with the failure of Lehman Brothers, the takeover of...
The hotel industry will continue to feel the effects of the economic downturn into 2009 when occupancy rates will bottom out, according to a new report by PKF Hospitality Research...
While the nation’s attention has been focused on economic turmoil and the bailout bill, Congress has also been dealing with items affecting business travel and the hospitality/meetings industry...
The economy is weighing heavily on corporate meeting professionals, according to an e-mail survey conducted by Corporate Meetings & Incentives and The Motivation Show in early September. The survey was sent to 165 corporate end-users who...
The best incentive State Bank & Trust ever dreamed up had nothing to do with putting money in employees' pockets. Instead, it was about raising community awareness and compassion, with an exercise that left many of the 500-plus employees...
In the past few years, the white papers of the Groups and Meetings Committee of the National Business Travel Association, Alexandria, Va., have taken the lead in exploring and defining the concept of a strategic meetings management program. The...